Title :
10-Gb/s asynchronous digital optical regenerator
Author :
Phillips, I.D. ; Gunning, P. ; Ellis, A.D. ; Lucek, J.K. ; Moodie, D.G. ; Kelly, A.E. ; Cotter, D.
Author_Institution :
BT Labs., Ipswich, UK
fDate :
7/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We describe the first experimental demonstration of an asynchronous digital optical regenerator. Error-free regeneration of 10-Gb/s optical packets up to 40000 bits long has been demonstrated without clock recovery. It is demonstrated that the optical nodes in this network may operate with independent clocks, within certain practical limits, offering the possibility of arbitrary mesh optical time-division multiplexing networks.
Keywords :
clocks; optical fibre networks; optical repeaters; synchronisation; time division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Gb/s asynchronous digital optical regenerator; Gb/s optical packet; arbitrary mesh optical time-division multiplexing networks; asynchronous digital optical regenerator; error-free regeneration; experimental demonstration; independent clocks; optical nodes; Clocks; Delay; Frequency synchronization; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber networks; Optical pulse generation; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Repeaters;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
